Is This NASDAQ Chart Signaling A Big Selloff?
Time for a little bit of technical analysis/chartsmanship sent in by a reader. You can make of it what you will, but the basic gist is this: The current 9-week rally in the NASDAQ 100 is incredibly...
View ArticleHow The Stock Market Resembles The Heart Rate Of A Dying Patient
It's a good time re-visit a concept that I wrote about in late 2010 about market variability and systems failure, in a piece called A Fingerprint of Instability in Biology and Finance. The basic idea...
View ArticleThis Technical Chart Says That Apple Is Getting Ready To Tank
For fans of technical analysis, a reader (David) sends in this chart arguing that based on long-term patterns, it's time for Apple stock to tank. Make of it what you will. Click the chart to enlarge...
View ArticleART CASHIN: We Are In The Lean Years Of A Biblical Stock Market Cycle
In today's Cashin's Comments, Art Cashin revisits a popular technical stock market cycle: the 17.6 year cycle. SImply put, the stock market will experience 17.6 years of monster gains followed by 17.6...
View ArticleHUSSMAN: The Market Looks Exactly Like It Did Before The Last Crash
In his latest weekly note, fund manager John Hussman is... bearish on the market. This has been his stance for a couple years now, and this week he looks at a technical indicator showing signs of...
View ArticleSome Clever Charts To Show What's Really Happening In The Market
The nice thing about a week that, outside of housing, is rather light on data is that it lends itself to reviewing cross asset relationships that might otherwise get overlooked. A such, a few sellside...
View ArticleThe Kondratiev Wave Signals An End To The 30-Year Bond Market Rally
Interesting stuff from this morning’s CNBC European Squawk, The updated reading of the work of 1920s Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev shows that interest rates have reached the bottom of a...
View ArticleWhat Consumer Stocks Are Saying About The State Of The Stock Market Rally
A very good, bullish observation from Waverly Advisors on a "trusty" market indicator suggesting ongoing market strength. “Historically, the Discretionary/Staples spread has rallied with the broad...
View ArticleThis Church-Sanctioned Technical Indicator Says The Housing Market Will Go Lower
Jefferies's chief equity strategist Sean Darby turns to an obscure Church-sanctioned technical indicator to explain why housing hasn't bottomed yet. Yes, he's talking about the Coppock indicator, a...
View ArticleQuantifying The Relationship Between Distance And Accuracy In Golf
Here’s a little golf economics. After all, economics is just the study of how people make choices at the micro or macro level. This includes the analysis of how professional golfers make the choice...
View ArticleThis Looks Like Wave 5 Of A Cyclical Bull Market
Let me start off with this disclaimer: I am a neophyte when it comes to Elliott Wave theory so please forgive my rudimentary analysis and labeling especially to those that are far more sophisticated...
View ArticleDOUG KASS: Market Technicians Are Terrified Of The '3 PEAKS AND DOMED HOUSE'
Last February, Doug Kass introduced us to the "three peaks and a domed house" technical formation. He's actually been talking about it since last September on RealMoney Pro. In short, it's a weird...
View ArticleThis Was The Chart That Predicted Apple's Demise
Back on March 15, a reader (David) warned that Apple was soon going to tank based on the below technical analysis chart. The basic gist is that Apple had shot upwardly parabolic to a strong resistance...
View ArticleBofA: These 4 Charts Will Tell Us If We Should 'Sell In May And Go Away'
"Sell in May and go away" is an old stock market adage that worked great last year. But you'd be ill-advised to just blindly follow this arcane rule of Wall Street. In her recently published 102-page...
View ArticleCHART: Why Investors 'Sell In May And Go Away'
'Sell in May and go away' is one of the classic rules of Wall Street. While the economic rationale behind the rule is dodgy, historically the rule has worked for investors. Myles Zyblock, Chief...
View ArticleBofA: The 'Ichimoku Clouds' Signal A Storm May Be Coming For The Stock Market
According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's technical analysis team, the S&P 500 and the KBW bank index have breached important support levels on the Ichimoku cloud charts, and the VIX is now...
View ArticleA Different BofA Technical Analyst Sees Gold Going To $5,000
Earlier, we noted that Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Mary Ann Bartels and Stephen Suttmeier saw gold prices going to as high as $3,000. This was according to a note published yesterday. Today,...
View ArticleCITI: Stocks Are Repeating A Pattern From Late 2007, Right Before Things Got...
Tom Fitzpatrick, Citi's top technical analyst, has spotted a pattern in the stock market that he thinks is worth monitoring closely. Here's an excerpt from his research commentary appears on King...
View ArticleTechnical Chart Shows Major Opportunity Betting On A Gold Price Collapse
There's been an eleven year bull market in gold, but it has been down sharply since last years highs. The team over at Waverly Advisors has an interesting trade should prices keep falling. Here's how...
View ArticleA Fantastic Presentation On The State Of Markets Right Now
The three big themes for the global economy right now are: performance of the United States, the euro crisis, and China's response to its slowdown. The team at Waverly Advisors has put together a...
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